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Need We Sacrifice Accuracy for Fluency?
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Nikolov, Marianne; Krashen, Stephen – System, 1997
Compares children who studied English as a foreign language in Hungary with a communication/content-based approach to similar children who studied English with a form-based traditional approach. Findings reveal that the former were slightly more accurate in their production of grammatical morphemes in an oral interview and were more fluent. (three…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students